Robespierre's health problems were well documented, Carbonnieres said, and Werner Stenzel, a research physician who studies sarcoidosis, said the speculation seemed reasonable given the symptoms he ...

Ruth Scurr (ed.) Carlyle’s The French Revolution (London and New York: Continuum, 2010) and Ruth Scurr, Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution (London: Vintage, 2006) The boy kneels in ...

Revolutionary France in 1794 was a crucible, combining all the elements that would embody Western politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. All eyes were on Paris. Depending on who was ...

Some years ago, in Paris, my son and I read Christopher Hibbert’s history of the French Revolution. When we were done, we talked about how the book had inadvertently convinced us that Maximilien ...

The Reign of Terror, also called the Terror, was a period of state-sanctioned violence and mass executions during the French Revolution. Between Sept. 5, 1793, and July 27, 1794, France's ...

The problem for Robespierre's biographer was best stated by the 19th-century historian John Wilson Croker. "Of no one of whom so much has been written is so little known," Croker boldly asserted, ...

While historical record includes a wealth of evidence that backs up negative attitudes towards the gathering masses, it is also chockful of individuals who were behaving badly too and yet they tend to ...

Ever since he lost his head to Madame Guillotine in 1794, the historical jury has been out on the life and legacy of Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary and architect of la Grande Terreur.

The letter, a witness to the birth of the French Republic, was sold to a private collector at auction to the disappointment of a group of historians, writers and politicians including Annie Duprat, ...

A pair of researchers who gave the French revolutionary Robespierre a disputed 3D makeover raised the possibility Friday that the man best known for unleashing the ...